Seeing in the Dark

Zoe Addison
Fri, Feb 14 2014

Venus Retrograde felt like I left the parking brake on. Everything was shaking during the month it took to reach the new moon in Aquarius, causing a lot of my hastily-welded pieces to fly off, injuring pedestrians and making me look a bit of a schlemiel on top of it all. Retrograde doesn’t mean everything goes wrong, just that you’re aware of it being wrong.

This winter as I turned 25 I’ve been paying rent with credit cards, doing everything I can think of and several things I haven’t to minimize how far I’m in the red. My net income has been negative over the past four months. I’m not convinced it’s even possible that I’ve made it this far.

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